Amitesh Grover

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Amitesh Grover
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NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of the Arts London
AwardsMASH FICA New Media Award

Amitesh Grover is a theatre director and artist. He has won multiple awards and exhibited his projects across the globe. Grover's work spans performance, video, digital art, text projects, installation, and theatre.[1] He is currently associate professor at National School of Drama.[2] He also curates contemporary performance and is a published writer.

Education[edit]

He is an alumnus of The National School of Drama (India) and completed his post graduation from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London.

Career[edit]

Grover work has been shown at Southbank Centre (London), Arts Centre (Melbourne), MT Space (Canada), HKW Berlin (Germany), Segal Festival (U.S.),[3] Belluard Bollwerk International (Switzerland),[4] The Hartell Gallery (U.S.), Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art,[5] The Shrine Gallery, VAICA Video Art Festival, TATA Literature Festival,[6] Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Prithvi Theatre Festival,[7] Serendipity Arts Festival.[8] He was an artist resident at PACT Zollverein (Germany), Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Japan),[9] and Berliner Theatertreffen.[10] His work has been commissioned by the Chennai Photo Biennale[11] and by Australia's Sydney-based 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.[12] He is the creator of India’s first cyber-theatre play THE LAST POET,[13] and India’s longest running billboard art VELOCITY PIECES.[14][15][16]

He was the artistic director for International Theatre Festival of Kerala,[17] Ranga Shankara Festival (Bangalore),[18] and Nove Writers’ Festival (Prague).

Currently, he is associate professor at the National School of Drama (India),[19] and visiting faculty at National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), Shiv Nadar University (U.P.), and Tisch School of the Arts (NYU).[20]

Awards[edit]

He is the recipient of MASH FICA New Media Award,[21] Prohelvetia South Asian Residency Award,[22] Bismillah Khan National Award, Charles Wallace Award (U.K.)[23] and was nominated for Arte Laguna Prize (Italy),[24] Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and Forecast Award (Germany).[25]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Performance Making and the Archive, Ed. Ashutosh Potdar & Sharmistha Saha, ISBN 9780367195601, Routledge India, 2022
  • Pandemic of Perspectives, Ed. Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty, ISBN 9781003320524, Routledge India
  • Postdramatic Theatre and India, Ed. Ashis Sengupta, ISBN 9781350154094, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Why Curate Live Arts? TURBA, The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, Ed. Dena Davida, ISSN: 2693–0129, Berghahn Journals, New York & Berlin
  • ISSUE, Ed. Venka Purushothaman, ISSN: 2315–4802, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
  • Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance, Ed. Ranjana Dave, ISBN : 978-81-945348-2-2, Tullika Books
  • Hakara, Ed. Ashutosh Potdar, ISSN 2581-9976
  • Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis, and Global Futures, Ed. Orianna Cacchione, Nandita Jaishankar, and Arushi Vats, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
  • A Voice, Under 35: The Murder of A Scene: The Indian Express

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "The Immersive Theatre Experience Of Amitesh Grover's 'Money Opera". Outlook India.
  2. ↑ "Faculty Members". National School of Drama.
  3. ↑ "The Last Poet by Amitesh Grover". Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022.
  4. ↑ "The sleep of the grateful dead". Swissinfo.
  5. ↑ "Bonsai Gone Wild". Open The Magazine.
  6. ↑ "As cultural festivals go digital, organisers aim for global reach, hybrid online-offline presence in future-Art-and-culture News". Firstpost.
  7. ↑ "Prithvi's all decked up for its annual theatre festival". Hindustan Times.
  8. ↑ "In an abandoned building in Goa, Amitesh Grover creates a layered piece on capitalism, titled The Money Opera". The Indian Express.
  9. ↑ "International Visitors Program". www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp.
  10. ↑ "Theatertreffen 2013 - Broschüre by Berliner Festspiele - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  11. ↑ "Amitesh Grover's 'imageless photographs' occupy the crowded frame of text and memory". News9live.
  12. ↑ "China Daily Lifestyle Premium". China Daily Lifestyle Premium. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  13. ↑ "A digital festival that responds to the times". Mint (newspaper).
  14. ↑ "The Last Poet cyber theatre directed by Amitesh Grover". The Telegraph.
  15. ↑ "All the world a stage: Artist urges protest through KG Marg billboard in Delhi". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  16. ↑ "An artist nudges Delhi with verses on a billboard". Mintlounge. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  17. ↑ "Celebrating Otherness". The Indian Express.
  18. ↑ "Ranga Shankara theatre festival opens on Oct 27". Deccan Herald.
  19. ↑ Nath, Parshathy J. "I make the audience complicit in my art: Amitesh Grover". The Hindu.
  20. ↑ "All the web's a stage". The Week.
  21. ↑ "Mash FICA New Media Grant". The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  22. ↑ "South Asian artists awarded residencies". Pro Helvetia New Delhi. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  23. ↑ "Amitesh's story". Charles Wallace India Trust.
  24. ↑ "ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 12th Edition by Arte Laguna Prize - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  25. ↑ "A Project By Amitesh Grover – Forecast". Retrieved 2023-07-17.
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